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Valley of the Seven Castles 'Valley of the Seven Castles' is an informal name given to the Eisch valley, in central Luxembourg. The valley stretches from the confluence with the Alzette upstream to Steinfort, on the border with Belgium.
Valley of the Shadows "Valley of the Shadows" by Origin Unknown is a highly influential drum and bass track from 1993. Its lengthy but now famous sample "long dark tunnel", sampled from a BBC documentary on out-of-body experiences, is often used by DJs and dance music aficionados to identify the record.
Valley of the Squinting Windows Valley of the Squinting Windows is a novel by Brinsley MacNamara, set in the fictional village of "Garradrimna", County Westmeath, Ireland. While McNamara insists that Garradrimna could represent any village in Ireland, geographical landmarks mentioned in the book indicate that Garradrimna coincides with the real-world town of Delvin.
Valley of the Sun (Ultimate) Valley of the Sun (or VOTS) is a local Ultimate not-for-profit based out of Phoenix, Arizona. It was incorporated in 1993 in order to be able to handle the financing of one of the largest annual tournaments in the United States.
Valley of the Wolves Iraq Valley of the Wolves Iraq (Turkish: Kurtlar Vadisi Irak) is a popular 2006 Turkish film based on a television series of the same name that has been a hit in Turkey for three seasons. The movie is set in northern Iraq during the Occupation of Iraq and begins with U.
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is a valley within Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska which is filled with ash flow from the eruption of Novarupta on June 6-June 8, 1912. Following the eruption there were thousands of fumaroles venting steam from the ash.
Valley Oak The Valley oak is the largest of North american oaks and arguably the most majestic of its genus. It ranges over the hot interior valleys of California and mature specimens may attain an age of up to 600 years.
Valley Oaks Charter School Valley Oaks Charter School, in Bakersfield, California, is a parent-choice and parent-participation Charter school that is primarily for homeschooling. The school is based on the California public school system but has separate rules and requirements.
Valley Parade Valley Parade, currently known under a naming-rights contract as Intersonic Stadium (previously Bradford & Bingley Stadium), is the home ground of Bradford City in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The club does not own Valley Parade and in 2005 narrowly escaped being forced to move It is not to be confused with The Valley], where [[Charlton Athletic F.
Valley Regional Hospital Located on 243 Elm Street in Claremont, New Hampshire, Valley Regional Hospital was established in 1893 as Cottage Hospital. As a 45 bed, 24/7 staffed Emergency Room hospital, it is the only such facility in the entire Sullivan County.
Valley River Center Valley River Center is a shopping mall located in Eugene, Oregon. As the largest shopping center south of Portland and north of San Francisco, this mall comprises over 130 local and national stores and restaurants.
Valley Stream (LIRR station) Valley Stream is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch serving the residents of Valley Stream, and is the first station (travelling eastbound) in Nassau County. The station can platform a 10-car train, and service is provided on both the Far Rockaway Branch and Long Beach Branch.
Valley Stream Memorial Junior High School The Valley Stream Memorial Junior High School is a junior high school (grades 7-9) that is part of the Valley Stream Central High School District. The children that go to this school will go to Valley Stream Central High School unless they transfer to another high school before ninth grade.
Valley Stream North High School Valley Stream North High School is a public junior and senior high school (grades 7-12) in the town of Franklin Square, New York in southwest Nassau County. It is part of the Valley Stream Central High School District.
Valley View High School (Pennsylvania) Valley View High School, nicknamed the Cougars, was established in 1969 after the Jessup School Burned down. Soon after Archbald, Blakely, and Jessup schools decided that they should combine and form a larger and better school.
Valley View Island Valley View Island is an island bar on the South Branch Potomac River in Romney, West Virginia. The island is formed at the confluence of the South Branch and Sulphur Spring Run at the foot of Romney's Yellow Banks and takes its name from nearby Valley View Farm, an 1855 Antebellum plantation home.
Valley View Mall (Roanoke) Valley View Mall is a 800,000 square foot regional shopping mall located in Roanoke, Virginia. It is located near the interchange of Interstate 581 with Hershberger Road (State Route 101) in the northwest section of the city.
Valley Youth Theatre Valley Youth Theatre (VYT) is a regional theatre located in Phoenix, Arizona. Established in 1989, VYT is dedicated to having a positive impact on the community’s children through a wide variety of performing arts opportunities.
Valleycrest Productions Valleycrest Productions is the television production company responsible for Win Ben Stein's Money, the American versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire.Valleycrest Productions from the Internet Movie Database
Valleyfield, Fife High Valleyfield and Low Valleyfield are neighbouring villages in Fife, Scotland, midway between Dunfermline and Kincardine-on-Forth. Low Valleyfield is on the shore of the Firth of Forth, High Valleyfield on the ridge immediately to the north.
Valleymede (VIVA) Valleymede, or Valleymede Drive, is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. It opened on September 4, 2005, on the intersection of Valleymede Drive and Highway 7 in Markham/Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Valleywood Valleywood is the informal name for the film industry in Wales, with particular reference to the ongoing project to construct a film studio complex at Llanilid near Bridgend in South Wales. It is being developed by Dragon International Studios, chaired by Richard Attenborough.
Vallis Alpes Vallis Alpes (latin for"Alpine Valley") is a spectacular lunar valley feature that bisects the Montes Alpes range. It extends 166 km from the Mare Imbrium basin, trending east-northeast to the edge of the Mare Frigoris.
Vallis Schrödinger Vallis Schrödinger (latin for "Schrödinger Valley") is a long, nearly linear valley that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is oriented radially to the huge Schrödinger basin and most likely was formed during the original impact that created Schrödinger.
Vallis Schröteri Vallis Schröteri is a sinuous valley on the surface of the Moon. It is located on a rise of continental ground, sometimes called the Aristarchus plateau, that is surrounded by the Oceanus Procellarum to the south and west and the Mare Imbrium to the northwest.
Valliscaulian Order The Valliscaulian Order was a religious order within the Roman Catholic Church, so named after "Vallis Caulium", or "Val-des-Choux", its first monastery, in Burgundy, until its absorption by the Cistercians.
Vallivattom Vallivattom is a remote village in the Vellangur Panchayat district of Kerala, the southern most state of India. Its western boundary is defined by the Canoli canal, and its eastern by the Trichur-Kodungallor road.
Vallombrosa Vallombrosa is a Benedictine abbey 21 miles (33 km) south-east of Florence, in the Apennines, surrounded by forests of beech and firs. It was founded by Giovanni Gualberto, a Florentine noble in 1038 and became the mother house of the Vallumbrosan Order.
Vallourec Vallourec is a French group made of companies specialised in hot rolled seamless steel tubes, Expandable Tubular Technology, Automotive parts and Stainless steel. As of 18 December, 2006 Vallourec replaced Publicis as one of the 40 companies included in the CAC 40 index of the French stock exchange.
Vallumbrosan Order The Vallumbrosan Order is a Roman Catholic religious order, or technically a Benedictine congregation, which derives its name from the motherhouse, Vallombrosa (Latin Vallis umbrosa, 'shady valley'), situated 20 miles from Florence on the northwest slope of Monte Secchieta in the Pratomagno chain, 3140 feet above the sea.
Vallvidrera Vallvidrera is a district of Barcelona, Catalonia, in one of the sides of the Collserola hills (Tibidabo being one of those). There are excellent views over the city and the Mediterranean from Vallvidrera, on a clear day it's possible to see the peaks of Mallorca on the horizon.
Valmara 69 Valmara 69 or V-69 is an Italian bounding anti-personnel mine. The mine was developed from the V-59 mine, and although the mine is no longer produced in Italy, a number of copies were produced in other countries.
Valmet Valmet (originally Valtion Metallitehtaat - State Metalworks) was formed in 1951, when the state of Finland decided to group their various factories working on war reparations to the Soviet Union under one company. Valmet and the factories fused with it produce a wide array of products including aeroplanes, auto- and locomotives, weapons manufacturing and everyday household appliances.
Valmet L-70 Vinka The Valmet L-70 Vinka (Finnish: "Blast") is a Finnish-designed piston-powered military basic trainer aircraft. Design work was begun in 1970 as a replacement for the Saab Safirs then in use with the Finnish Air Force and the first prototype (designated LEKO-70) flew for the first time on July 1 1975.
Valmet M76 The Valmet M76 is a gas operated assault rifle of Finnish origin, which was also made in semi-automatic version for civilian market. Based on the earlier Rk 62 (Rynnäkkökivääri 62, Assault rifle 62), it is a modified AK-47.
Valmont (film) Valmont is a 1989 Orion drama/romance motion picture starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, and Siân Phillips. The movie was adapted for the screen by Jean-Claude Carrière and Miloš Forman, based on the French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) by Choderlos de Laclos, and was directed by Miloš Forman, with screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière.
Valomilk Originating in 1931, a Valomilk is a liquid marshmallow filled milk chocolate cup manufactured by the Sifers Candy Company. The fifth generation of the Sifers family still uses the original family recipe along with much of the original equipment.
Valona Valona is a popular narrative song and poetry form of the Mexican state of Michoacán. Its main characteristics are: a bitter sense of humor, mainly referred to erotism (being even sexually explicit) and social concerns; its lyrics are composed as groupings of ten-verse strophes, each verse of eight phonetic syllabs; musically, all valonas are sung (in fact, almost recited) with one and only tune, with a musical refrain after each strophe, than can vary.
Valongo [of Arms]Valongo (pron. ) is a Portuguese municipality located in the District of Porto, the city population is 16,698, and the municipality is compsed of 5 parishes and has a total population of 85,814 inhabitants.
Valor device The Valor device, also known as V-device, "V" device, and Combat V, is an award of the United States military which is authorized by the military services as an attachment to certain awards and decorations.
Valorisation The valorisation of capital is a concept created by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy. The German original term is "Verwertung von Kapital" or "Kapitalverwertung" but this is difficult to translate, and often wrongly rendered as "realisation of capital", "creation of surplus-value" or "self-expansion of capital".
Valorous Unit Award The Valorous Unit Award is a decoration which is awarded to units of the United States Army which display extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy of the United States of America. The Valorous Unit Award is also granted to any United States Army unit which, while serving with friendly foreign forces, engages in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.
Valour Road Valour Road is a street in the West End of Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was formerly called Pine Street, but was renamed in 1925 to Valour Road in recognition of the courage of three young men who all lived on the 700 block of the street and served in the First World War.
Valparaiso (play) Valparaiso is Don DeLillo's second play, in which a man suddenly becomes famous following a mistake in the itinerary of an ordinary business trip which takes him to Valparaiso, Chile, instead of Valparaiso, Indiana.
Valparaiso Crusaders The Valparaiso University Crusaders are the 18 intercollegiate teams that compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. Valparaiso University competes in the Mid-Continent Conference in all sports except for football, which is not sponsored by the conference.
Valpovo Valpovo is a town in Slavonia, Croatia. It is close to the Drava river in the region of Slavonia, 25 km northwest of Osijek, altitude 91 m, with a population of 7,904, and a total of 12,327 in the municipality, absolute majority who are Croats (census 2001).
Valproate semisodium Valproate semisodium (INN) or divalproex sodium (USAN) consists of a compound of sodium valproate and valproic acid in a 1:1 molar relationship in an enteric coated form. It is used in the UK and US for the treatment of the manic episodes of bipolar disorder, and increasingly taken long-term for prevention of both manic and depressive phases of bipolar disorder, especially the rapid-cycling variant.
Valproic acid Valproic acid is a chemical compound that has found clinical use as an anticonvulsant and mood-stabilizing drug, primarily in the treatment of epilepsy and bipolar disorder. It is also used to treat migraine headaches and schizophrenia.
Valpromide Valpromide (marketed as Depamide by sanofi-aventis) is a carboxamide derivative of valproic acid used in the treatment of epilepsy and some affective disorders. It is rapidly metabolised (80%) to valproic acid (another anticonvulsant) but has anticonvulsant properties itself.
Valrhona Valrhona is a French chocolate manufacturer based in the small town of Tain L'Hermitage in Hermitage, a wine-growing district near Lyon. The company was founded in 1924 by a French pastry chef from the RhĂ´ne valley and has 5 subsidiaries and 60 local distributors across the globe.
Valrubicin Valrubicin (N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate, Valstar®) is a chemotherapy drug used to treat bladder cancer. Valrubicin is a semisynthetic analog of the anthracycline doxorubicin, and is administered by infusion directly into the bladder.
Valsad Valsad also known as Bulsar, is a city and a municipality in Valsad district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The city holds a collectorat, a district court, police headquarters with a historic prison, and is governed by a municipality headed by the city mayor.
Valsad district Valsad is a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat. As shown in the map, it is surrounded by Navsari district in north, Dang district in east, Maharashtra state in south and Arabian sea on the west coast.
Valsalva maneuver In medicine, the Valsalva maneuver is performed by forcibly exhaling against closed lips and pinched nose, forcing air into the middle ear if the Eustachian tube is open. This maneuver with slight modifications can be used as a test of cardiac function and autonomic nervous control of the heart or to ‘clear’ the ears (equalize pressure) when external pressure increases, as in diving or aviation.
Valsamata Valsamata (Greek: Βαλσαμάτα), also Valsamada is a village located 17 km feast of Argostoli and about 38 km W of Poros in the community of Omala on the island of Kefalonia. Valsamata is linked with a road linking with the Travliata-Fragkata Road and the Argostoli-Sami Road (GR-50).
Valsörarna Valsörarna (Finnish Valassaaret) is a group of islands located in the Kvarken region of the Gulf of Bothnia. The islands are situated in the territorial waters of Finland and are the last you see when going by boat or ferry from Vaasa, Finland to Umeå, Sweden.
Valsequillo de Gran Canaria Valsequillo de Gran Canaria is a Canarian municipality in the eastern portion of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands. Vega de San Mateo is a suburb of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Valsinni Valsinni is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. Its most famous buildings which are part of Valsinni's heritage are the Isabella Morra Castle which which dates from the end of the 14th century, the Palazzo Melidoro, Chiesa Madre (mother church) of medieval origins and the Chiesa dell'Annunziata from the sixteen hundereds.
Valsta Syrianska IK Valsta Syrianska IK is a Swedish based football club in Valsta, a suburb of Stockholm. The club, formed in 1993 by Syriac immigrants arriving from Turkey has advanced through the league system and is currently playing in the third highest Swedish league, Division 1 Norra.
Valtech Valtech is a global technology consulting firm that specializes in application development. Since its founding in 1993 Valtech's consultants have been practitioners and leaders in the subjects of Object-oriented Analysis & Design, Design Patterns, Object-oriented Programming, Iterative Software Development Lifecycle, and Agile Methods.
Valtellina Valtellina (or the Valtelline valley; German: Veltlin) is a valley in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, bordering Switzerland. Today it is known for its skiing, its cheeses (in particular Bitto, named after the torrent Bitto) and its wines.
Valter di Salvo Valter di Salvo (Italian) is the head Fitness Coach at Manchester United. He was signed at the end of the 2003/04 season from Real Madrid and is heavily involved in setting the training schedules and diets of the Manchester United players.
Valters & KaĹľa Valters and KaĹľa, sometimes spelt Walters and Kazha is a Latvian duo who represented their homeland in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest. The slow ballad-like song, "The War Is Not Over", finished in 5th place despite having a considerably large lead at some point during the voting.
Valtice The village of Valtice (German: Feldsberg) in the Czech Republic contains one of the most impressive Baroque residences of Central Europe. It was designed as the seat of the ruling princes of Liechtenstein by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in the early 18th century.
Valtiel Valtiel is a fictional monster in the Konami's survival horror video game Silent Hill 3. His name means "attendant" by the way of the French word "valet", his existence as an angel is derived from suffixing "-el.
Valtteri Filppula Valtteri Filppula (born March 20, 1984 in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings as their third-round pick, number 95 overall, in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.
Valu-mart valu-mart is a chain of grocery stores in Canada owned by Loblaw Companies Limited. The stores operate in smaller locations than others in the Weston chain, and are often opened in former locations where other Weston stores had been, including Zehrs and Mr.
Valu-Rite Valu-Rite is a network of over 4,000 independently owned and operated pharmacies established in 1979. It has a business affiliation with McKesson Pharmaceuticals, which sponsors the network and owns the name "Valu-Rite".
Valuation (finance) In finance, valuation is the process of estimating the market value of a financial asset or liability. Valuations can be done on assets (for example, investments in marketable securities such as stocks, options, business enterprises, or intangible assets such as patents and trademarks) or on liabilities (e.
Valuation using discounted cash flows A method for determining the current value of a company using future cash flows adjusted for time value. The future cash flow set is made up of the cash flows within the determined forecast period and a continuing value that represents the cash flow stream after the forecast period.
Value (computer science) In computer science, a value is a sequence of bits that is interpreted according to some data type. It is possible for the same sequence of bits to have different values, depending on the type used to interpret its meaning.
Value (mathematics) In mathematics, value commonly refers to the 'output' of a function. In the most basic case, that of unary, single-valued functions, there is one input (the argument) and one output (the value of the function).
Value (poker) In poker, the strength of a hand (how likely it is to be the best according to the rules of the game being played) is often called its value; however, in the context of poker strategy the term is more often used to describe a betting tactic, a bet for value. This bet (or raise) is intended to increase the size of the pot, by inducing opponents to call.
Value added Value added refers to the additional value created at a particular stage of production or through image and marketing. In modern neoclassical economics, especially in macroeconomics, it refers to the contribution of the factors of production, i.
Value added selling Value added selling is one of several sales techniques that relies on building on the inherent value of a product or service. By it's nature the value add technique is a more flexible and customized selling approach that requires input from a defined range of average customers.
Value at risk In economics and finance, value at risk (VaR) is a measure of how the market value of an asset or of a portfolio of assets is likely to decrease over a certain time period (usually over 1 day or 10 days) under usual conditions. It is typically used by security houses or investment banks to measure the market risk of their asset portfolios (market value at risk), but is actually a very general concept that has broad application.
Value averaging Value averaging, also known as dollar value averaging (DVA), is a technique of adding to an investment portfolio to provide greater return than similar methods such as dollar cost averaging and random investment. It was developed by former Harvard University professor Michael E.
Value Added Tax-free Exports from the Channel Islands Value Added Tax-free Exports from the Channel Islands are exports of goods from the Channel Islands on which Value added tax (VAT) is not levied. In recent years, companies in the United Kingdom have expressed concern at the competition thereby offered to their goods on which VAT is levied.
Value Based Accounting Standards and Principles Value Based Accounting proposes new principles and standards to be used in preparing financial statements for publicly traded companies. These principles and standards may, with modification, be used for private companies, and non-profits and governmental bodies.
Value capture Value capture refers to a type of innovative public financing in which increases in private land values generated by a new public investment are all or in part “captured” through a land related tax to pay for that investment or other public projects.
Value card A value card is a behavioral self help device. The individual identifies what aspect(s) of his or her conduct require improvement, makes a tersely worded list of these areas or goals, and writes or otherwise prints the list on a card that can be carried in a wallet or pocket.
Value conversion Value conversion is relevant to the managing of intangible assets or intellectual capital. Value conversion is the act of converting or transforming financial to non-financial value or an intangible asset into a financial asset.
Value date Value date in finance is the date when the value of an asset that fluctuates in price is determined. The value date is used when there is a possibility for discrepancies due to differences in the timing of asset valuation.
Value distribution theory of holomorphic functions In mathematics, the value distribution theory of holomorphic functions is a division of mathematical analysis. It tries to get quantitative measures of the number of times a function f(z) assumes a value a, as z grows in size, refining the Picard theorem on behaviour close to an essential singularity.
Value investing Value investing is a style of investment strategy from the so-called "Graham & Dodd" School. Followers of this style, known as value investors, generally buy companies whose shares appear underpriced by some forms of fundamental analysis; these may include shares that are trading at, for example, high dividend yields or low price-to-earning or price-to-book ratios.
Value Line Value Line, Inc.(), is a New York corporation founded in 1931 by Arnold Bernhard, best known for publishing the The Value Line Investment Survey ®, a stock analysis newsletter that's updated weekly and kept by subscribers in a large black or green binder.
Value menu A value menu is a group of items on a fast food restaurant menu that are usually priced at two dollars or less. The value menu is unique in that the items sold are usually priced lower than most of the other items on the menu.
Value network analysis Value network analysis is a business modeling methodology for understanding internal and external value networks. The methods include visualizing business activities and sets of relationships from a dynamic whole systems perspective and several unique analysis approaches for understanding value conversion of financial and non-financial assets, such as intellectual capital, into other forms of value.
Value of control The value of control is a quantitiative measure of the value of controlling the outcome of an uncertainty variable. Decision theory provides a means for calculating the value of both perfect and imperfect control.
Value of Earth In green economics, value of Earth is the ultimate in ecosystem valuation, and important to value of life calculations. It begins with the simple problem that if the Earth ceases to support life, and human life does not continue elsewhere, all economic activity will also cease.
Value of information The value of information is a quantitative measure of the value of knowing the outcome of an uncertainty variable prior to making a decision. Decision theory provides a means for calculating the value of both perfect and imperfect information.
Value of life The value of life is an economic or moral value assigned to life in general, or to specific living organisms. In social and political sciences, it is the marginal cost of death prevention in a certain class of circumstances.
Value of lost load The Value of Loss Load (VoLL) is the estimated amount that customers receiving electricity with firm contracts would be willing to pay to avoid a disruption in their electricity service Vassilopoulos, P., “Models for the Identification of Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets”, Industrial Organization, D.
Value of time In transport economics, the value of time is the opportunity cost of the time that a traveller spends on their journey. In essence, this makes it the amount that a traveller would be willing to pay in order to save time, or the amount they would accept as compensation for lost time.
Value over replacement player In baseball, value over replacement player (or VORP) is a statistic invented by Keith Woolner that demonstrates how much a hitter contributes offensively or how much a pitcher contributes to his team in comparison to a fictitious "replacement player," who is an average fielder at his position and a below average hitter.[http://www.
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Value product The value product (VP) is an economic concept formulated by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy during the 1860s, and used in Marxian social accounting theory for capitalist economies. Its annual monetary value is approximately equal to the netted sum of six flows of income generated by production:
Value proposition A value proposition in business and marketing, is a statement summarizing the customer segment, competitor targets and the core differentiation of one's product from the offerings of competitors. In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore writes, "Positioning is the single largest influence on the buying decision".
Value Partners Value Partners Management Consulting is a management consulting firm, headquartered in Milan, Italy. It is recognized as the major Italian consulting firm, having engagements in 37 countries and offices in 7: Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Greece, Turkey, China and India.
Value Per Action Value Per Action (VPA) refers to an online marketing business model similar to the Cost Per Action (CPA) model. While Cost Per Action provides a low risk arrangement in which the seller only pays an advertising fee when a consumer takes action (such as purchasing their product) Value Per Action extends that model to add revenue sharing with the consumer.

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